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The Research Foundation of the State University is hiring an administrator from the National Science Foundation to become the new president and SUNY vice chancellor, filling the vacancies caused by the firing of John J. O’Connor last summer.

Timothy Killeen, 60, has been the National Science Foundation’s assistant director for geosciences since 2008, on loan from the University of Colorado, where he has been a research professor and member of the National Academy of Engineering.

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